This “zero trust” thing is really starting to get out of hand. It’s clearly the newest security drug everyone seems to be pimping on every street corner—from vendors to advisors to the media. “Pssst….hey buddy. I know they say you can’t buy it, but…wanna fix?” The reason it’s so important to get these low-class dealers […]
Is there a little too much Johnny Cash in your framework?
You might’ve heard me talk about this a bit in the past, but I grew up in East-Central Illinois on a farm in the ‘70s and ‘80s. And one of the things I grew up listening to on the radio – until I had one of my own – was Country & Western music. I […]
Curiosity kills cats, not architects…so what does?
Today I was having a good chat with a friend of mine and fellow Enterprise Security Architect about what’s been going on in his world since we last spoke. Now my friend has been around the block more than a few times, has been a “real” architect for many years, and has 2 levels of […]
Sometimes, knowing what it isn’t is more important
I’m not sure if it’s been said before or not, but ultimately, life itself is essentially a classification problem. Every day we’re faced with many situations, people, actions, events and observations, and how we choose to interpret those is fundamentally based on how we classify them. Because if we can’t classify them effectively, then we […]
Are you merely sipping SABSA or drinking the full draught?
I was reading something new yesterday that was giving an overview of SABSA from the perspective of someone who was enthusiastic about it, and was trying to do their part to raise the awareness of it and its merits among the wider world. I love it when people do this, because it helps the whole […]
